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Hardcover This Bloody Mary Is the Last Thing I Own Book

ISBN: 0880016019

ISBN13: 9780880016018

This Bloody Mary Is the Last Thing I Own: A Journey to the End of Boxing

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Book Overview

The sport of boxing is dying in a final explosion of dollars. Its beleaguered performers are reaching up for a last payday with bravery, one-liners, and self-delusion.Fittingly it is in Las Vegas, boxing's capital, in a faded casino bar with only a hooker for company that Jonathan Rendall -- British boxing writer and sometime boxing agent -- reflects on his own exit from the scene. What unfolds is the story of Rendall's boyhood romance with the sport, his canny coming-of-age as a boxing writer, and his risky bid to bring the unknown Colin "Sweet C" McMillan to the World Featherweight Championship.As Rendall narrates his growing disillusionment with the boxing business, the characters he has lived with and for rear sharply into focus: the mouthy, 80-year-old ladies' man Jack Kid Berg; the barely-alive legend Kid Chocolate; and "Sweet C", who teaches Rendall that "you can talk about boxing all you like, but at the end of the day, it's a fight. That's all it is".

Customer Reviews

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Rated 4 stars
then don't drink it so quickly!!

Funny book, great perspective on boxing, I just wish he'd put a bit more about some of the incidents he witnessed and people he met. The talk about the trip to Cuba was pretty saddening. Quite different from standard boxing books, but very enjoyable!

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Rated 5 stars
Heart wrenching, exciting, incredibly readable

This is a non-fiction book about the fight game by a guy who goes from easily beaten young college fighter to professional sportswriter to manager of a world champion, and the people he meets and things he sees along the way. There are many heart-wrenching sequences set in and out of the ring, some great fear, great exhiliration, and great sadness. This guy's powers of observation and description powers are phenomenal. This...

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Rated 5 stars
Not just a boxing memoir.

Very enjoyable read wether you are into boxing or not. Many anecdotes on travels, famous and not so famous people who add color to this well written and entertaining read. Shows some of the questionable business practices at the top of any profession and shows a glimpse at what it's like to manage a profesional athlete to the top and all that comes with that too. You will turn the pages one by one once you get started...

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Rated 5 stars
Boxing's good,bad and ugly - wrapped up like poetry.

When John Salley was playing for the Detroit Pistons he said of the NBA's roughness that "the only way to learn how to fight is by getting beat up." And so the only way to learn about man's attraction and obsession with climbing into the ring - short of doing it yourself - is by reading "This Bloody Mary Is The Last Thing I Own." Jonathan Rendall uses a master storyteller's touch to introduce real-life great...

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Rated 5 stars
A fantastic book about one mans experience of the boxing wor

This book describes the experiences of a young writer who fell in love with the art of boxing at an early age, fought and was badly beaten while at University, and was then able to realise his dream of managing a talented fighter to a World title. At once engaging, but also very funny, this is an extraordinary insight to the rather seedy world in which Rendall found himself. What makes it perhaps unique is the way in which...

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